Heart failure is a major health risk, and with limited availability of donor organs, there is an
increasing need for developing cardiac assist devices (CADs). Mock circulatory loops (MCL) …

Cardiovascular diseases have become a serious threat to human health now. With the rapid
development of computer technology and medical imaging technology, the method of …

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is a minimally invasive intervention for the
treatment of severe aortic valve stenosis. The main cause of failure is the structural …

Left ventricular assist device (LVAD) use has continued to grow. Despite recent advances in
technology, LVAD patients continue to suffer from devastating complications, including …

Background Minimally invasive and alternative strategies for implantation have been
anecdotally reported for contemporary continuous-flow left ventricular assist device (CF …

LifeV is a library for the finite element (FE) solution of partial differential equations in one,
two, and three dimensions. It is written in C++ and designed to run on diverse parallel …

Numerical simulations of cardiac blood pump systems are integral to the optimization of
device design, hydraulic performance and hemocompatibility. In wave membrane blood …

Background The use of left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) to treat advanced cardiac
heart failure is constantly increasing, although this device leads to high risk for …

Left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) are used to provide haemodynamic support to
patients with critical cardiac failure. Severe complications can occur because of the …

The blood flow in arterial trees in the cardiovascular system can be simulated with the help
of different models, depending on the outputs of interest and the desired degree of accuracy …